Always remember:
Never trust a Republican. Ever.
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I assume anything from a cop or Republican is a lie until shown otherwise. So far it's turned out to be a pretty reliable philosophy.
Correlation of "if accused by a Republican, investigate that Republican for the exact thing they accuse others of".
It's absurd how often they project their own crimes.
They think that everyone is a garbage human like they are.
Since I see "marginalized groups should buy guns" comments constantly on Lemmy, please remember that gun sales bankroll the $18 million per year in "donations" that the gun lobby makes to the very worst Republicans.
They'll also use that gun as an excuse to kill you. That's why they're pushing the idea of "LGBT extremists" in the first place. It gives far-right fuckstains a chance to claim "I saw a pride pin and a holstered gun and thought they were going to do a mass shooting so I executed them on the street before they could".
it's real interesting that you said "you" not "us" at the start of your second paragraph. really good preface to the rest of your argument.
what the fuck industry lobby doesn't bankroll republicans?
if they're gonna kill us anyways, I see no reason not to go down fighting.
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I disagree with this actually. Minorities should be arming up imo, and if you're worried about putting money in Republican pockets, buy privately instead.
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I got a text yesterday from some conservative bullshit saying that I needed to vote for certain judges Trump named if I wanted to preserve voting integrity.
I needed a good laugh.
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Conservative media be like:
Thank you - it always do be like that with the fear-mongerers.
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They don't need evidence when they have their "gut instincts".
"mY oWn ReSeArch!"
This is amazing but also so super unfair to Ralph who's never once shown the severe brain rot required to be part of the modern Republican party .
Rumble or some Q-anon forum on screen would have also been acceptable lol
And like their gut, their instincts are full of shit.
The most depressing thing about this is that I expect no one who actually believed there was such a trend will read this article, nor believe it if shown to them. I'm glad it was published, but for the audience likely to read it I don't think there is going to be a surprise here.
But it is something cis people can send family who thinks this
That's a really good point!
Yeah, a lot of these people live in a conservative bubble, but loved ones can help break them out
It turns out the "gay agenda" was just a Trapper Keeper all along, they like to be organized.
I label all my attempts to organize my schedule "the gay agenda". Nobody has the time to convert the straights, we'd have to reschedule our D&D campaign night.
Right wing nutcase: "lone wolf, acting alone, yadda yadda, don't lump us in with them..."
LGBTQ nutcase: "they speak for all of them..."
I think I need someone to explain this to me ...
I think it's just our brains want to change "violent" into "violence" because there's so many attacks against that demographic.
What the headline is saying is that LGBT isn't committing terroristic attacks like Republicans claim.
Thank you, I was very confused about that until I had actually read the article. My question was actually regarding the sheer insanity of the original claim - as in, who believes that?
Conservatives do it with everything.
As soon as a big story breaks, their media sphere makes outrageous claims as "just asking questions" then report that their viewers are repeating it.
By the time facts come out, they've dropped that story and are doing the same for a new one.
It all circles back to Watergate when Nixon's administration realized the only reason he had to resign, was Republican voters were listening to the same news as everyone else.
A memo from the accidentally made it into Nixon's presidential library, and from that a paper trail was found that resulted in Faux News.
That's why it's infuriating Biden wants to return to those days. Republicans weren't different back then, they just hadn't figured out how to get away with it.
Now that they have, there's no going back.
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A lot of anti trans rhetoric is actually basically that. “Involved in” is an amazing way to frame victims of crime as possibly perpetrators. Trans women are disproportionately involved in sexual violence, sure it’s as the victims but you don’t have to say that if you want to spin it.
There was a mass shooting recently and hatemongers have been screeching that the shooter was trans in order to drum up anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric among conservatives. This article is basically setting the record straight.
But ... wouldn't that include acknowledging that mass shootings are an issue? Regardless: what the actual fuck?
Yes but not the correct issue.
They acknowledge it like they acknowledge climate change: exactly as much as they feel in the moment they can use it to get what they already wanted
Yeah cause it doesn't exist. Stop trying to get attention, you're not fooling anyone.
Why would someone who is marginalized on a daily basis for just being want to increase that attention and hatred even more? I’ve known several transgendered folks who just want to get by and be left alone, not stir up more violence and hatred.
Took me a second to realize the title was talking about violent extremism BY LGBTQ+ and trans folks, not against them.
Relevant Orwell quote about Hitler:
It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.
Of course. Violent far right liars will make up any bullshit they can use to be horrid little cretins. They NEED people to shit on and harm. If trans people disappeared, they would move on to another group. If all groups they say they hated vanished, they would eat one another. Hatred is the only thing they have been absolutely concrete on.
Shocking that a thing that never existed isn't there!
Sigh, this is why we’re gonna be shipped off. I hate that the dumbest failsons can just lie like this
I think I need someone to explain this to me ...
There was a mass shooting recently, and conservatives pretended it was committed by a trans person. It wasn't.
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